Orris Reopens as Spaghetti House by Orris; Nong Lá Bringing Vietnamese to Sawtelle

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In addition to the soon-to-open Plan Check, a few more new restaurants are helping alter the flavor of Japanese-heavy Sawtelle Bouelvard. Orris, which has long offered a French-influenced Japanese menu, has reopened with a new “Spaghetti House” concept after briefly closing at the end of January. This means that chef-owner Hideo Yamashiro is now tackling Italian food, giving us flashbacks of Erbe Matte’s own attempts to integrate Korean profiles with Italian recipes on Canon Drive. The concept finds Yamashiro riffing on salads, soups, and pasta dishes, with a wee taste of Japanese cooking apparent in menu items like shrimp mousse ravioli with shiitake sauce and Tanaka mustard greens in white wine sauce, though the chef wisely sticks closer to Italian cuisine instead of trying to bridge two styles.